The bench of Hinske, Mirabelli, Pena and Cora is 1-for-8. The Sox have scored an average of 3.17 runs per game, tied with Kansas City and Texas for 11th in the AL; Only Oakland (3.14) is worse. The team is 8th in average, 9th in OBP and 12th in slugging.

Drew is 7th in the league in batting and tied for 3rd in hits. He has hit in all six games (the only Sock to do so). Lowell's 3 doubles is tied for the lead league with several other players, including Cleveland's Trot Nixon.

Boston's ERA is 5th best (behind the Angels, Twins, A's and Royals). The Yankees are 11th (6.20).

The home opener is Tuesday afternoon against Seattle (.180/.211/.326 in three games). The Mariners had 4+ innings wiped out on Friday in Cleveland, after four snow delays totalling almost three hours. Doubleheaders scheduled for both Saturday and Sunday were snowed out. The teams will try to play two games again today, but there was at least a foot of snow on Jacobs Field yesterday afternoon.

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Josh Beckett and Daisuke Matsuzaka flewback to Boston together on a rented private jet. Dice: "I'm very happy to go back to Boston early, because I haven't seen the new house in Boston." He added that he and Beckett were splitting the cost of the plane.